[Pkg-nx-group] New situation with NX 3.0 and debian

[Paul van der Vlis]

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann schreef:
> Hi
> 
> On Freitag, 6. Juli 2007, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Roberto C. Sánchez schreef:
>>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:06:43PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
>>>> The real serious issue are the NX libraries, which (still with NX 3.0)
>>>> duplicate a lot of code from other upstream projects: - the whole X
>>>> source tree (X.org 6.6 this time, instead of a radom XFree86 4.3
>>>> development snapshot in the past) - esound 0.2.36, in comparison to an
>>>> ancient pre- woody version until now - samba 3.0
>>>> - GKrellM 2.2.10
>>>> - OpenSSH 4.4p1
>>>> TightVNC and rdesktop forks have fortunately been dropped with NX 3.0.
>>> I think that the code duplication is probably one of the biggest
>>> hurdles to overcome for inclusion in Debian.  The security team will
>>> *never* go for having forks of such critical items as openssh, X and
>>> samba embedded into another package.
>> Is the duplicated code changed?
> 
> The required protocol changes for are embedded into the forked code for 
> nx-X11 and nxssh (only the client parts are actually used, which of course 
> doesn't make it any prettier).

How could we do it the right way then? Add the NX protocol to the Xorg
source?

I think this is something for xorg-upstream and not for Debian to do.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.


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